Biography

Human Geography and Development Research

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Andreas Dittmann

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Curriculum Vitae


*25.05.1959

Education and Academic Career
Education
1980 - 1987	Study of Geography, Social Anthropology, African Studies, Geology and Religious Studies, Philipps University Marburg and Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Degrees
2001	Habilitation in Geography, Bonn, “Center and Periphery. Development and Dynamics of Central Places Systems in Peripheral High Mountain Regions. The Example of the Karakorum/Pakistan.”
1989	Dissertation in Social Anthropology at the Philipps University Marburg “Cooking with Stones - A Contribution to Cultural History”
1987	Graduation in Physical Geography, Diploma-Thesis “Palaeo-Geography of the Egyptian Eastern Desert”

Professional Experience
since 2007	Professor of Geography, Department of Geography at the University of Giessen, Germany
1995 - 2007	Assist. Professor, Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Germany
1990 - 1994	Research Assistant, Department of Geography at the University of Bonn, Germany
1987 - 1989	Assistant, Department of Geography at the University of Bonn, Germany

Editorships and Functions (Selection)

Editor: „Geographisches Taschenbuch”
Editor: „National Atlas of Afghanistan”
Co-Editor: „Erdkunde - Archive for Scientific Geography”
Co-Editor: „Entwicklungsforschung - Beiträge zu interdisziplinären Studien in Ländern des Südens”
Co-Editor: „Osteuropa verstehen - Die Länder an der Ostgrenze der NATO”
Co-Editor: „National Atlas of Georgia”
Member in audit committee „Global Change and Politics”
Member in "Center for International Development and Environmental Research” (ZEU), University of Gießen (director)

President of the Association of Geographers at Universities in Germany, Austria and Swizzerland (VGDH)

Co-chairman of „Geographical societies in Germany, Austria and Swizzerland“ (GeoGes)

Partnership coordinator between the Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU), Germany and the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST), Windhoek, Namibia